Slormancer screenshots and assorted comments

[Colif]

this cute little thing is/was meant to be a portal at end of a dungeon. It didn't work... lucky game remembered my progress

the comments on weapons aren't as silly as Torchlight

Path of Exile has led to other games having truly insane trees

worst part is following a build without any screenshots of the skill tree

Massive game, uses 1.5gb of ram while playing.

 

[Colif]

One fight I really didn't have to do much, with 3 clones doing most of my fighting, this witch army was overkill

I just run around collecting things.
Its only the boss fights that are a pain. One I haven't done yet is more pattern recognition than a damage affair.
Another one I died from a seemingly unblockable attack. not sure how I survived it the second time

I did my usual trick, start again but this time I found some of the skills I had missed first time around. She didn't have the problem with the unblockable attack as her minions stun locked the boss so hard it never cast that move. Some of the skills I missed on 1st mage really were needed.

this is more a stat stick than a weapon. It keeps me alive, just as well my minions do the damage. Its output is pretty low compared to others.

Now up to a scarecrow boss, he more pattern recognition than sheer output. Might try him later.

 

[Colif]

Pattern recognition guy not so hard, now onto a grind as I need to be a much higher level than I am currently. Need to do 3 trials and need to be lvl 50 just to finish the first one... and 75 to complete second

I have to spend time doing expeditions which are random dungeons. Think I am in an interlude. Story continues after 3 trials which are essentially the rest of the game.

later: almost finished trial part 1, I only have to upgrade an item to lvl 6 and do the final part now. I got to lvl 50 and then found I needed to charge my controller. Was getting tired anyway.

I don't play any games for 18 months and the moment I do mum gets annoyed that I waste all my time playing games... um... hello? I can't win with her. What is point of having a gaming PC if I can't play games on it.

 

[Colif]

Totally Serious game

I haven't tried that one yet

Some staffs can evolve, this is one of them

But I don't know what level it evolves at. I got it to lvl 39 trying as I am curious what it becomes... apart from a staff
Its damage is still 0 - Its just as well my clones do all the damage, although I did die using it... should have known better than to take on a boss.

Seems it evolves at lvl 58, i might do that tomorrow. I just took it into easier areas

There is a staff of necromancy (obviously) but you only get one assistant. I want a staff that makes my clones move with me... but that would be op.
damn, they caught me reading the text at bottom

 

[Colif]

The one in pink is my clones, I tend to stack them up - I should have 3 of them but i recently discovered I only had 2 which was probably part of why I died earlier. You can only have so many skills active but you get more points to spend than active skills so you max all skills out and get a damage percentage of the points spent as damage. I mistakenly had the wrong skills active and was missing a clone.

The balls spin around them as a sort of defence.
They do all of my damage, I just cast them into the right spots in combat since they can't move.

The blue ghost is Bryan, he goes poisoned at start of game and I acting as his revenger upon the ones who killed him., Not sure if resurrection is on the cards

 

[Colif]

The trials are end game. I didn't realise it but I finished story a day ago ... mostly. Only thing left in story is kill one boss but you need to complete the trials to face him.

Its all instances from here on. Just like Diablo 4 is

Guess it explains why the trials are so comprehensive, it is the rest of the game. Not sure what I was expecting from such a small game.

Means I should go find a better build but I don't mind letting clones do most of it now.

Easy to spend large amounts of gold and not notice... upgrading gear is expensive.

I worked out I can hold shoot button down but auto fire is slower than pressing. It is helpful on the huntress as you constantly firing.

 

[Colif]

The Goldfish starts to make sense... still need to use its special move just to see what it does

I wasn't expecting there to be sets in this game, least of all a fishing set lol

I am legion, although only 2 of me so far

some weapons have 3 evolutions, this one and one a few others have 5.

Lvl 63. Maybe I try the endless dungeon tomorrow. Still haven't worked it out yet.

I played my rogue/huntress for a while today, not sure how melee works when she only gets bows.
This doesn't even seem like same character

this one suits my build. I was wondering what she could do while clones killed everything, her staff can help

 

[Frindis]

That build from the video reminds me of ping pong or even tilting in pinball

 

[Colif]

Every class has about 120 weapons they can get, but many of them are evolutions and every one has a Primordial version which is even stronger. So final count for all classes is about 240 weapons each.

I thought I was going well with one character but I am really only started... getting the basic versions is only the beginning. Not all weapons evolve, although the screen that lists them all will show a link to the next reaper if it does.

For instance, the top reaper here has 6 evolutions but its the only one I have that has that many. Most of that page don't evolve into another staff, other pages are better for that. Evolutions don't replace previous species of reaper.

I am missing the Primordial reaper tab but as I am still unsure how to upgrade them to Primordial I won't worry about it yet. The weapon o dex includes all three classes so there aren't 15 pages of just Staffs.
You get them via the Great Forge AKA the endless dungeon. I am still a little hazy about what I need to do to upgrade them? Hard to find clear info on game... google search and watching videos appears to be only answer.

Also, when I say 240, they aren't different entirely. They are different versions of the same effects. So there is a sword, Staff and Bow of Unity, for instance. One of the shops in town lets you make any weapon you have found the alternative of, If I play long enough I will get to that process, I just lack the mats. So me finding all the Staffs might pay off for the Knight or Huntress later on.